If you have purchased and played Science Girls prior to March 2014 and are interested in beta-testing the new version on Steam, please email me with your receipt (or enough information about your order that I can find it in the records) so I can give out a shiny Steam beta key.

We want to get this ready for release soon, so please come and give us some feedback!

Please do not buy a copy of the game now just so you can get a Steam test key. If you don't have a copy yet, WAIT.

Not a change - party members on joining have their own starting XP which is not the same as the people who've been in your party up until that point, so getting the same XP as everyone else will still leave her at a slightly different total.

A request for next time you do a biggish update: would it be possible to add the girls' names to the top of the window where we pick their actions each turn? (This was something I would have liked on my last playthrough, too.) I get to screens like this:

and I have to double-check the girls' hair color against their pictures at the bottom to make sure I'm not about to have someone do an attack when they really need to heal (or waste a heal when they should be attacking). It's not insurmountable, and I'm sure it gets easier as the game goes on and I'll get more used to pairing the pictures and the names and the HP bars, but it's something to think about if it wouldn't be too much extra bother.

ETA: I only tonight noticed the white border around the selected girl. D'oh! (And I have played a good way through the game before, too!)

Last edited by wendymarlowe on Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:36 am, edited 1 time in total.

Just finished a fight in the swampy area, which started when I was on the path and the monster (one of those inky octopus things) was not. I get back to the map and my character is standing next to the path where the monster was, unable to move in any direction. (Have to go back to a previous save.)

Now I can't get into the game at all - attempting to open it (through the desktop shortcut or via Steam) just gives me a Windows error saying "ScienceGirls!.exe has stopped working." Both Steam and Java updated something since yesterday (when I last played).

Does the error message provide any additional information? What version of Windows are you using? If you start the game directly from Windows rather than the desktop shortcut, does it work? Does unchecking the 'Enable Steam Overlay In Game' box make it work?

(Java updates should have no effect on it; Steam updates can have an effect, though it's working on my machine.)

I'm running Windows 7, and booting the game from the start menu, desktop shortcut, and Steam library page all give the same error. I found the "Enable Steam Overlay" box and tried it both checked and unchecked with all three boot variations; still no luck.